Rescuers, ambulances and police are working at Oktyabrskaya metro station in the Belarus capital Minsk. The latest reports suggest that the blast claimed 11 lives and wounded 126 people.
Twenty injured victims were taken to the city’s No. 2 clinical hospital, local television channel STV reported. Other wounded were received by the No. 6 hospital.
A total of 126 people have been admitted to Minsk hospitals, 22 of them in serious condition. The survivors mostly have wounds to their arms and legs as well as to the lower torso, according to Vitaly Gurko, chief physician of city hospital No. 6, as quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency.
According to RIA Novosti news agency, the explosion went off at 17:56 local time.
The bomb was stuffed with pieces of metal, and the nature of injuries confirms suspicions that it was a terrorist attack, the Interfax news agency quoted a source in Minsk law enforcement authorities as saying. The explosion was equivalent to five to seven kilograms of TNT, officials said.
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Belarus Prosecution office says Minsk subway blast was a terror attack, launches criminal investigation. Meanwhile, the death toll grows in Belarus after an explosion at a metro station. 11 people confirmed dead, 126 hospitalised.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
China Calls it a Western Plot
Iran, Syria, and Belarus join China in condemning West for meddling.
China's first aircraft carrier: the ultimate expression of projecting geopolitical power,
it represents China's rise based on industry and multipolar international relations. It
also directly threatens the parasitic, financier, Ponzi-scheme, unipolar Western model
of global governance. The two cannot coexist. Confrontation is not inevitable - it is
already unfolding now as a global campaign of geopolitical destabilization by the West.
Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer
Activist Post
Bangkok, Thailand April 13, 2011 - Destabilizing China and attempting to overthrow a government of 1.3 billion people most certainly is a grievous act of war. Add to that operations unfolding across Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and South America and you have a recipe for World War III.
While initially passed off as spontaneous, wholly organic uprisings, the smirking corporate-financier oligarchs are now conceding that indeed they have meticulously planned, trained, funded, and supported uprisings from Tunisia to Egypt, from Tehran and Belarus to Burma and Beijing. With Western forces storming Libya and the Ivory Coast from above, they are signaling their will to bring their global campaign from proxy forces on the ground to armed intervention, with Iraq and Afghanistan proving their will to invade and occupy as the truest expression of imperial ambition.
International Reaction
While Clinton and Obama talk about the "one voice" the world speaks with, in reality they are referring to the US, UK, EU and their coalition of the coerced. When the UNSC r.1973 regarding using force against Libya was brought to vote, Russia, China, India, Brazil and even Germany abstained. And while the US did indeed vote "yes" they did so without consulting the nation's legislative branch, circumventing their own national constitution to illegally ramrod the intervention through.
China, after being targeted by similar "revolutionary" activities as seen in the Middle East and Northern Africa has now accused the United States of "using the issue of human rights reports to interfere in other countries' internal affairs." It should be noted that these "reports" come from entirely disingenuous corporate-funded organizations. It should also be noted that indeed the US has now admitted to funding activist groups and equipping them with technology to organize and carry out subversive activities within their respective countries.
The Washington Post in March 2011 reported that the US State Department, US Department of Defense, and Broadcasting Board of Governors, upon which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sits as a director, are funding tech firms providing dissidents with means to undermine their governments in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, and even China. More recently an AFP report in April 2011 reported that the US State Department has also been providing training to thousands of dissents at locations around the world before sending them back to undermine the respective governments. Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Iran, and China are all listed as nations targeted by the US State Department's activities.
The reinvented PNAC think-tank "Foreign Policy Initiative" concurs that
China's statement that a vast Western conspiracy is at work is merely
paranoia. US openly admits however to funding sedition in China.
So it comes as a surprise to see US foreign policy think-tanks like the "Neo-Conservative" PNAC redux Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) propose that China is "paranoid" for calling these openly admitted US funded destabilizations a "vast Western conspiracy." FPI has also concluded that not only is China's response to openly foreign-funded sedition unreasonable, but such a response demands further action to be taken by the United States. Such brazen hubris can only be expected from a group consisting of global elitists who have neither paid the cost of their agenda financially nor shouldered a rifle to defend it.
Many of the "activists" at the center of the US State Department's concerted attack on China are being granted "pro-bono" legal aid form the globalist "Freedom Now" organization, funded and lined by Council on Foreign Relations members and corporate funded foundations.
From a March 2011 Land Destroyer report "Target China:"
The corporate-financier run Western media has been recently beating their chests over the imprisonment of Nobel Laureate and "human rights activist" Liu Xiaobo, a proponent of ending China's strong central government and politically active military in favor of a weak, Western-style system run by corruptible, feckless, incompetent leadership that invites multinational corporations to entropically infest state institutions and seize control of the nation's people and resources. Liu Xiaobo's support goes beyond the media's scornful chastisement of China's government on his behalf, and includes "pro-bono" legal aid from the Council on Foreign Relations lined "Freedom Now" organization. Readers may remember "Freedom Now" from their extensive involvement in supporting the Syrian opposition leading the recent unrest against the Assad government.
Freedom Now is also providing legal services for Gao Zhisheng, a human rights lawyer also imprisoned in China. Gao had written an open letter to the US Congress detailing human rights violations in China, and his family currently resides in the United States. Council on Foreign Relations minion Jerome Cohen, Canadian MP Irwin Cotler, and former Canadian MP David Kilgour are personally leading the campaigns for both Liu Ziaobo and Gao Zhisheng. All three, are also involved in meddling around the globe in similarly hypocritical gambits revolving around "human rights activists" who just so happen to be fighting governments the West would like to see changed.
While it may seem noble to champion for human rights, it is a matter of fact that men like Cohen, Cotler, and Kilgour, and the entire Freedom Now organization along with the CFR that populates its membership and the foundations that fund it, are amongst the greatest enemies of human rights and human freedom on earth. The Council on Foreign Relations has tirelessly repeated its goal of establishing a one world government, with members working ceaselessly to achieve it and their publications over the decades perpetually reflecting this ambition. This is a world government that is of, by, and for the corporate-financier oligarchy's interests, and their interests alone.
China's Response
China has now openly charged the West with interfering in their internal affairs. In a recent Reuters report, "China crackdown driven by fears of a broad conspiracy," it stated that "Chinese leaders believe domestic foes, their foreign backers and Western governments are scheming to undermine and ultimately topple the Communist Party. Recent speeches and articles from security officials echo with warnings of subversive plots backed by Western "anti-China" forces."
Indeed, considering the evidence both openly admitted and being carried out through less visible channels like the Freedom Now organization, this is more than a paranoid conspiracy theory, it is a stated fact that indicates China is not only aware of what is happening inside their own country, but also who is really behind it.
The Reuters report continues by stating, "But what outsiders may see as a loose, disparate group of dissidents, bloggers, lawyers, and grassroots agitators, China's security police treat as a subversive, Western-backed coalition with the potential to erupt into outright opposition." The reality is that these groups are only seen as being a loose, disparate opposition because the Western media is portraying them as such, even in light of recent admissions from the State Department on the contrary.
China, according to the Reuters report, "view that "color revolutions" that swept Central Asia several years ago were Western-promoted rehearsals for a similar subversive assault on China." All evidence clearly says that these were Western created, funded, and supported organizations operating in Serbia in 2000 as the Otpor movement, which later became CANVAS, training protesters from the Ukraine, Belarus, and Georgia, and more recently from Tunisia and Egypt. The scale on which organizations like CANVAS meddle across the globe is admitted in Foreign Policy's "Revolution U" article where CANVAS claims to have worked with groups from over 50 other countries.
Iran & Syria
China then is not simply paranoid but grappling with a very real, concerted effort to destabilize its 1.3 billion population and collapse its government. Joining China in its condemnation of the West's meddling is Iran which has recently stated that the unrest in Syria is also a Western plot. The evidence is overwhelming, with Syrian opposition amongst the many receiving aid to destabilize and topple their governments from the US, and opposition parties on the ground with leadership operating out of the US and London.
Iran itself was the subject of a 156 page Brookings Institute Report titled "Which Path to Persia?" detailing the use of covert military operations, foreign-backed color revolutions, sanctions, and outright military invasion to topple the Iranian government and institute regime change. Much of what was detailed in the report has already begun to unfold not only in Iran but in Libya as well.
Belarus
Belarus, also the target of US funded CANVAS trained mobs, foreign funded opposition, sanctions, and Congressional resolutions declaring the Belarusian government "illegitimate," has also made statements that the unrest in their nation was the result of a Western plot. Quite clearly it is, and with the recent bombing of Minsk's subway resulting in the death of 12, Belarus' government has reiterated the fact that it is a target of Western destabilization with President Alexander Lukashenko specifically saying the bombing may have been "a gift from abroad."
Joe Liberman betrays his mandate given by the American people and the US Constitution
to explain his resolution of incorporating Belarus into the "Euro-Atlantic world." The US has
spent years trying to absorb the former Soviet territories into the "Washington Consensus."
Implications
The charade is over, and the reality of global confrontation between the West and the world it presumes dominion over is beginning. What was once eluded to only within the halls of think-tanks and obscure commentary is now headline news. For the people of the world, it would be beneficial to recognize it is not servile, feckless politicians like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or Joe Liberman that are responsible for this confrontation. It is the multinational corporate-financier oligarchs that transcend borders and to a certain degree already dominate this planet.
Identifying them is the first step to stopping them. Full-spectrum boycotts and campaigns to eliminate and replace their presence within our local communities is what we can start doing today. Politicians afar can be compromised and coerced and cannot be looked to in order to solve our problems, we must look within ourselves and to our communities. We can either do this now, or face the consequences of being bled financially and quite literally as this confrontation intensifies.
Tony Cartalucci's articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at
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Congratulations could be due here to the authorities if, as it appears, they have nabbed these nutters very quickly.
Belarus police arrest two people after Minsk metro blast
President said suspects admitted attack which killed 12 commuters and injured 150
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/13/belarus-bomb-two-men-arres ted
....President Alexander Lukashenko said the suspects were held on Tuesday in what he described as a "brilliant operation" by police and the KGB. "The main thing is that we know who carried out this attack, and how," he said. "It's not clear yet why, but that will soon become known."
No details of the alleged attackers were given, but identikit photographs of two suspects showed a fair-haired Slavic-looking man and another with darker features wearing a woollen hat. Both appeared to be under 30.
The bomb, placed under a bench on the platform at Oktyabrskaya station in the centre of the capital, exploded just before 6pm on Monday. Bloodied survivors staggered outside as thick smoke filled the metro.
Security sources told news agencies that surveillance cameras recorded a man putting a bag under the bench, ascending the escalator and then reaching under his coat to detonate the explosives. The man was identified in earlier footage, in which he regularly left the metro at a different station.
Officers who staked out the station exit identified the man and followed him to his home, where he was arrested by police special forces.
Lukashenko said the detainees admitted the attack and two other bombings, one in the city of Vitebsk in 2005 and another in a Minsk park in 2008, both of which injured about 50 people.
Lukashenko, an autocrat who has been in office since 1994, signalled that Belarus's beleaguered liberal opposition could be made a scapegoat for the attack when he said "the fifth column" should be questioned.... _________________ www.lawyerscommitteefor9-11inquiry.org www.rethink911.org www.patriotsquestion911.com www.actorsandartistsfor911truth.org www.mediafor911truth.org www.pilotsfor911truth.org www.mp911truth.org www.ae911truth.org www.rl911truth.org www.stj911.org www.v911t.org www.thisweek.org.uk www.abolishwar.org.uk www.elementary.org.uk www.radio4all.net/index.php/contributor/2149 http://utangente.free.fr/2003/media2003.pdf
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So, when an explosion hit Kastrychnitskaya (October Square) subway station in Minsk last Monday, killing 13 and injuring over 200, many Belarusians were shocked. "Who would do that and why?" Iryna Vidanava, editor of the independent multimedia youth magazine "34," asked me. "It's obvious [Belarus] is not a country where we would have any problems with terrorism or explosions or terrorist groups." Granted, this isn't the first time there has been a bombing in Belarus: There was one in 2005, in the eastern city of Vitebsk, and another in 2008 in Minsk, both of which injured dozens and which the authorities blamed on "hooligans." Yet the sheer randomness of these crimes and their inexplicable place in Belarus's political culture has created more questions than answers -- the most uncomfortable being, who benefits?
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